Word: bachelors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speaking of Columbia's recent action in regard to the admission of women, Harpers Weekly says: The young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they...
...faculty of Johns Hopkins University has just conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on seventeen graduates, and the degree of Bachelor of Arts...
...resolutions by virtue of which women are to be admitted to the privileges of Columbia College set forth that they shall be entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, after having studied for four years a collegiate course fully equivalent to that now used by men, provided, of course, that they pass satisfactorily the regular examinations. Women who do not wish to study the full course, may take up one or more studies of inferior range, and, if they pass the examinations in these, they will be entitled to receive certificates signed by the college authorities in which their...
...degree of bachelor of philosophy will be conferred at the close of the first year upon all such students of the school as shall have successfully completed the studies of the year...
...last President Eliot says: "The working of the elective system is also interesting . . . . its effects upon the common intellectual life of the college. It has certainly produced a great increase in intellectual intercourse and spontaneous association for intellectual objects among students." The discussion on the "meaning of the Bachelor's degree" is another of the special subjects in the report that will be read with interest...